Make We Here Our Camp of Winter – Dauw LP Release
is The Gentleman Losers’ fourth full-length album, featuring eight new compositions, most part of which was written during the summer of 2018 at a cabin by a lake in southern Finland.
Vinyl issue of the 4th album by The Gentleman Losers. Initially released on cd through Sound in Silence (soundinsilencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/make-we-here-our-camp-of-winter).
Samu Kuukka: keyboards, guitars
Ville Kuukka: guitars, lap steel, bass
Oliver Whitehead: spoken word
Release Date: 12th June 2019
Label: Dauw
Format: Vinyl edition of 200 copies pressed on 180 gram clear vinyl. Each copy is silk-screened by hand on high quality paper.
Make We Here Our Camp of Winter CD
is The Gentleman Losers’ fourth full-length album, featuring eight new compositions, most part of which was written during the summer of 2018 at a cabin by a lake in southern Finland.
Make We Here Our Camp Of Winter is a sublime album that intelligently mixes elements of ambient, lo-fi, electronica and post-rock. Recorded using both vintage analogue equipment and modern production techniques and with a sound palette that blends layers of haunting guitar melodies, slowly picked lap steel guitar, warm analogue synths, subtle bass lines, minimal beats and spoken word, it’s an emotive album that showcases the trademark sound of The Gentleman Losers at its best.
You can support and buy the CD here or download the digital release here.
Release Date: 11 December 2018
Label: sound in silence
Format: Limited edition CD
Permanently Midnight
With their trademark keen attention to detail, the production of the new album, Permanently Midnight, was to take several years. Samu and
Ville write, perform, and produce the music themselves, and this time they are joined by a guest vocalist and a baroque string section. Now, nally
ready to go out into the world, the album is set to start a new phase in the band’s life. “It’s nothing short of a rebirth”, says Samu. “Without a
doubt, to us, it’s our most important record.” Recorded at several locations in Europe, using vintage analogue equipment as well as modern
technology, Permanently Midnight explores the idea of liminality, of being stuck in a stage where the old has ceased to exist, but the new hasn’t
yet begun. is experience of in-betweenness permeated the lives of the brothers at the time of making the album, and it’s a mood they feel is
aecting the world at large currently. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow doesn’t seem to be coming; it’s permanently midnight.
e new album will be released by the Estonian boutique label Grainy Records on vinyl, CD, digital, and limited edition photo book/CD.
Release Date: 8 December 2017
Label: Grainy Records
Cat. no GR005LP1, GR005CD1
Format: LP, CD, BOOK
Dustland
If the band’s debut was like a sneak-peak into their universe, “Dustland” breathes the air of more than confident self- assurance. More refined and more detailed, the new album sounds like a ballroom orchestra recorded inside a snow globe. Big songs compressed through the bottleneck of lo-fi genius. Meanwhile, the ballerina still dances. A seamless, deep journey into an unknown yet familiar world, packed with references still to become reality.
From the opening track “Honey Bunch”, which dances around a little guitar motif, backed up by horizon full of slide-airyness, to the tape-hiss driven “Silver Water Ripples”. From “Lullaby Of Dustland”, which is exactly that, to the dark drones of “Wind In Black Trees”, or the 60s movie soundtrack-flavored harpsichord of “Farandole”, with “Dustland” The Gentleman Losers deliver a fascinating, hypnotic second album.
“The word cinematic is often used to describe our music. I suppose it’s fitting, but it’s a film genre that doesn’t quite exist. It should, though!”, muses Ville when asked about their sound. “It’s about memories of things to come – faded souvenirs from a twilight place that no one has been to”, adds Samu. “That place is called Dustland.”
This is still true, more than ever.
Release Date: 20 June 2009
Label: City Centre Offices
Cat#: Towerblock 043
Format: CD and LP
The Gentleman Losers
The debut release which straddles the fine line between twilight beauty and dusky threat — bringing a sound which references to the past that hasn’t happened yet. Released through the new-born Büro imprint – a subsidiary of Berlin/Manchester label City Centre Offices – The Gentleman Losers have succeeded in creating an aural document that revels in juxtaposition without resorting to leaden contrast; appearing at once strikingly familiar and gloriously new. Making music together since their early teens, Samu and Ville revel in a sound that evokes tarnished grandeur — where decay and starry-eyed innocence rub shoulders with dusty strings and syrup-drenched instrumentation. They have made the kind of record that acts as an adjective magnet from even the most austere sources, The Gentleman Losers are as dapper as you like. Recorded at night in a haunted house that comprises part of Turku’s medieval quarter, The Gentleman Losers describe their music as “one part ‘60s movie soundtrack, one part wooden electronica, all recorded through a ‘50s Telefunken mixer we found abandoned in a basement…
Release Date: 6 June 2006
Label: City Centre Offices
Cat#: BURO 001
Format: CD and LP
Various Artists – duskscape not seen (N66CD001)
The first release of new-born label nothings66 compiles; Helios and Goldmund from the Type Records, leading artists in the current electronic music scene, Lusine and The Sight Below from prestigious record label Ghostly International, Dub Tractor and The Gentleman Losers’ new album recently released in 2009 at distinguished German label City Centre Offices, September Collective, a band by Stefan Schneider (Mapstation, To Rococo Rot), Paul Wirkus and Barbara Morgenstern, Sons of Magdalene, a solo unit by Joshua Eustis from Telefon Tel Aviv, Color Cassette, releasing a bestselling new album from Autres Directions, aMute, released by Intr_version and now launching their own label Stilll, Crisopa, a popular shoegaze artist in Spain and having numerous fans also in Japan, the head of Anticipate Recordings, Ezekiel Honig, performing at Plateaux Fes and also Mutek 2009, Mou,Lips!, from mOAR and recently also known as Pirandelo, Fieldhead, from Home Assembly and also performing in The Declining Winter. From Iceland, Yagya, performing at Iceland Airwaves 2009 from Sending Orbs, Ozy, once releasing albums from Force Inc. and Trapez, Stafraenn Hakon, releasing also from well-known Nature Bliss and set to tour the EU soon, Sketches for Albinos, performing also at Iceland Airwaves 2009. And from Japan, an interlude of dot i/o, from Clammbon performing at Electraglide2009 (warp20).
Release Date: 17 February 2010
Label: nothings66
Cat#: N66CD001
Format: CD (Digipack Edition)
Rural Route No. 5
These tracks are a travelogue mapping paths taken in Europe during the past year or so. They are snapshots, based on improvisations drawing inspiration from the quieter moments of a nomadic life: a snowstorm in Helsinki, a hot September night in Berlin and a dusk in the Swiss countryside outside of Lucerne. The Kuukkas were finding homes away from home and longing back to one that was never there.
Release Date: 14 September 2010
Label: Standard Form
Cat#: SFRR005
Format: Limited edition CD-r
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